Life Quotes

Rob brown - if all the world is a stage and life is just a...
Johann von goethe - plunge boldly into the thick of life....
Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.
Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radne
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Norman Maile
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.
Thomas Jefferson
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
Sir walter raleigh - remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou...
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.
T. S. Eliot
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.
Thomas Jefferson
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?
Madame de Maintenon
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.
Pope Pius XI
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life.
Henry Havelock Ellis
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Mille
Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butle
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Poet at the Breakfast - Table", 1872
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.
Plato
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.
C. H. Cooley
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Shakespeare
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean - Paul Sartre
Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
Johann von Goethe
Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carve
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong